Dog owners who don't scoop up their pet's crap might sound a petty choice but, zap!... 50,000 volts would have them scurrying to clean up the warm filth, with or without a plastic bag.
They live in distant slums, surrounded by fetid remains, sleeping and eating amid "a forest of tumbling plastic bags and rivers of rotting, stinking filth", far from those whose detritus they collect.Darting through the screeching chaos of Cairo's traffic is 15-year-old Aaron.
You'll be aghast at the amount of filth that collects in the very tiny plastic dust bin.
Technically, this is boring, especially when you put it up against what boys have going on in their bedrooms: micro-adventures had by leagues of plastic army men; months-long games of Risk, all that filth.
An entire generation of Americans has grown up thinking public faucets equal filth, and the only water fit to drink comes in plastic, factory sealed.
In Los Angeles, after 10 months without rain, poisonous quantities of filth are bleeding into the ocean: oil, gasoline, antifreeze, brake pads, plastic bags, industrial waste, lawn fertilizer, animal dung.
Nature has begun to fight back against the vast piles of filth dumped into its soils, rivers and oceans by evolving a plastic-eating bacteria – the first known to science.
Just look at Cumberland Infirmary where the ceilings collapsed because of cheap plastic joints, where the sewage system could not cope with the number of users and filth flooded an operating theatre.
But my own reason, and I suspect everyone else's to some extent, was just the filth: the toilet was covered in piss, and debris, and there was a remnant plastic covering on half of it, from, perhaps, the last time someone had decided to go ahead.
